I Alone Can Fix It: A Conversation with Carol Leonnig

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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A lot of books have been written about Donald Trump and the Trump years president. Few have evoked the almost surreal atmosphere of those years as well as "I Alone Can Fix It," the history of the last year of the administration from Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker. We sit down with Carol Leonnig to discuss the book and what it has led her to conclude about the former president, those around him, their party and the state of American politics. Don't miss it. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.0	This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio
0:36.0	in the third sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, DC
0:41.0	and from other undisclosed locations across America and around the world.
0:47.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of the podcast.
0:50.0	This is one of our special episodes when we focus on a book that you need to read
0:54.0	by talking with the author of the book.
0:57.0	Today we're joined by Carol Lieneg, who is one of the co-authors of I Alone
1:03.0	Can Fix It, Donald J. Trump's catastrophic final year.
1:07.0	The book has received great reviews because it is a great story.
1:11.0	One of the very, very best that I have read coming out of the Trump years.
1:16.0	And if you could see me in my office right now, you would see a three-foot-long stack of those books.
1:25.0	I've read all of them. Welcome, Carol. Thanks for joining us.
1:29.0	It's my pleasure, David. I'm glad to be here with you.
1:33.0	Our audience is, we lovingly refer to them as nerds, but they're mostly policy long.
1:38.0	So they are really interested in the details of how the U.S. government works
1:43.0	or in this particular case, how it does not work.
1:47.0	I'm in the midst of doing yet another book on a different aspect of what happened
1:52.0	in the Trump administration. And I've talked to a lot of people and they described the administration in phases
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